Category: Gymnastics

12 teams to Championships

Hosted by Texas Woman’s University at the Fort Worth Convention Center Arena, April 15-16. Same venue as last year.

Oklahoma 197.575
LSU 197.300
Alabama 197.125
Utah 197.125
Georgia 196.850
Florida 196.725
Nebraska 196.550
Auburn 196.525
Stanford 196.525
UCLA 196.375
Minnesota 196.175
California 195.925

Click over to NCAA.com to see the AA and individual apparatus qualifiers.

12 teams to Championships
Road to Nationals

I’ve attended Championships for the last 9 years. But I’ll be in Rio for the Olympic Test Meet this time. The dates conflict.

Yusuke Saito – Bretschneider

The first to compete the skill … after Bretschneider.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Uncle Tim asks if this wild ass routine counts too many Kovacs variations. Yes, I’d say. Two should be maximum. Bretschneider has competed four.

Taylor Lindsay-Noel audiocast

Canadian gymnast Taylor Lindsay-Noel was paralyzed in 2008 training a toe-on double front dismount from Bars. No pit. No spot.

She’s very eloquent. Very active online.

And now she’s launched a podcast called Tea Time with Tay.

In her first podcast Taylor details the day of her life-changing accident.

Here’s her website.

Biles, Dowell, Hernandez, Locklear, Nichols, Raisman

Sounds great to me. 🙂

Hernandez was 2nd at the selection Camp.

Cottbus World Cup Finals day 2

Beam
1 Katarzyna Jurkowska Poland 14.033
2 Sophie Scheder Germany 13.900
3 Sanne Wevers Netherlands 13.666

Click PLAY or watch the Gold medal Beam routine on Facebook.

Floor
1 Lisa Top Netherlands 13.600
2 Katarzyna Jurkowska Poland 13.533
3 Sophie Scheder Germany 13.333
full WAG results

Click PLAY or watch Lisa’s FX on YouTube.

Read the gymmapstics report.

Vault
1. Verniaiev, Oleg UKR 15,233
2. Qu, Ruiyang CHN 14,899
3. Gischard, Benjamin SUI 14,833

Click PLAY or watch Gischard on YouTube. Handspring front 2 1/2 twist first vault.

P Bars
1. Nguyen, Marcel GER 15,666
2. Baumann, Christian SUI 15,500
3. Dauser, Lukas GER 15,366

H Bar
1. Verniaiev, Oleg UKR 14,966
2T Baumann, Christian SUI 14,766
2T Braegger, Pablo SUI 14,766

Full results MAG & WAG are linked from this page. Amanda Turner’s report on the last day of Finals is here.

Is International Gymnast magazine EVER going to update the functionality of their website? 🙂

Belgium defeats Romania

26187155036_85c3c1cb97_bBelgium 222.900
Romania 219.200

Both nations have a good chance to qualify a full team to the Rio Olympics from the Test Meet.

1 Axelle Klinckaert Belgium 56.500
2 Laura Waem Belgium 55.600
3 Diana Bulimar Romania 55.400
full results

On Bars Belgium went 56.550, Romania 51.350. The lowest Belgium start score was 5.6. The highest for Romania 5.5. 😦

Mouscron Friendly: Senior results

Read the Belgian Gymnastics blog report.

Germany did not compete their full Test Meet team at this event but certainly is another favourite to qualify a full team to the Olympics.

The Junior competition was dominated by Romania.